{"product_id":"dr-rudyard-turnstone-and-the-beach-of-promises-by-trevor-gill","title":"Dr Rudyard Turnstone and the Beach of Promises by Trevor Gill","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one is close to home. Trevor Gill is a Yorke Peninsula author, a journalist and poet who lives on the coast here, and Dr Rudyard Turnstone and the Beach of Promises is set on the beach of a small South Australian coastal town much like our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuddy is a ruddy turnstone, a small migratory shorebird who flies the East Asian Australasian Flyway between Australia and the Arctic and back. He calls himself a flying doctor, not of medicines but of hope, passing on what generations of turnstones have taught him. On the beach he befriends Heysen, a blind boy who would rather be with the birds than anywhere else, and Grace, a girl working to reawaken the language of her ancestors, the Narungga people of Yorke Peninsula. Their friendship, and Ruddy's long journeys, carry a quiet message about looking after the natural places that all of us, people and creatures, depend on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uplifting, illustrated story for older children and families, with chapter illustrations by Marie Parsons and a cover painting by Allyson Parsons. A genuinely local book, by a local writer, about this stretch of coast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trevor Gill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623871451373,"sku":"9781035835416","price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8532\/4525\/files\/9781035835416.jpg?v=1788505042","url":"https:\/\/www.peninsularecordsandbooks.com\/products\/dr-rudyard-turnstone-and-the-beach-of-promises-by-trevor-gill","provider":"Peninsula Records \u0026 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}